Charles Kettering Quotes

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
Charles Kettering

Problem, Stated

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

Business, Place, High

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles Kettering

Life, Future, Rest

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles Kettering

Long, Old, Exactly

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

Change, Progress, Hates

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering

Intelligence, Ignorance, Person

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

Great, Understand, Between

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles Kettering

Time, Tomorrow, Thinking

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

Time, Stupid, Done

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering

Down, Keep, Anyone

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

Failure, Greatest, Find

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Charles Kettering

Failure, Greatest, Fail

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Charles Kettering

Future, Lives, Rest

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering

You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

Stupid, Sincere

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering

Impossible, Act, Fail

One fails forward toward success.
Charles Kettering

Success, Forward, Toward

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Kettering

Through, Smoke, Brothers

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering

Chance, Getting, Somewhere

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering

Time, Place, Off

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
Charles Kettering

Try, Again, Matter

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering

Storm, Off, Ocean

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering

Hope, Future, Limit

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles Kettering

Good, Problems, Progress

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles Kettering

Mind, Open, Exist

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 29, 1876

Died: November 25, 1958

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